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Originally Posted by HarryT
No - you can sell paperbacks at a profit because the hardback sales have already paid the up-front costs of producing the book. What people seem to want are eBooks released simultaneously with the hardback, but at paperback prices. That's a pricing model that just doesn't work.
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Up-front costs... Let's see, new cover art for the mmpb versions, new fonts and style changes, need to have the book re-edited because the publishers tend to NOT keep the submissions as RTF/HTML/XML files - and did I forget the entire new set of costs in actually PRINTING the paperbacks?
Well, at least the *important* up-front costs of upper-management and publicity have been met. And we can forget about the authors, they really don't count for snot in the whole scheme of things...
Derek